Once upon a time, a few mistakes ago
G paired up with A
It was a mismatch

You found it, you found it, you found it

Proofreading proteins

It needs to be removed
Thats helicase's call
Strand mismatch repair

DNA poly, DNA poly, ligase
And its been fixed with repair synthesis
And I realized it saved me


Chorus
I knew errors were trouble when they walked in

So shame on me now
Changed genes to things they'd never been
Till they altered me oh oh

I knew errors were trouble when they walked in
So shame on me now
Changed genes to things they'd never been

Problems during replication

Oh trouble trouble trouble trouble


Single lesions
Missing a base

Or maybe just damage
Needs to be removed
I'm drowning, endonuclease, endonuclease


Creates a scission
To take it out

A mistake in my past is all you'll ever be
And now I need, and now I need DNA poly
You were long gone

After ligase sealed me
And base scission repair is complete


Repeat Chorus

When double strand breaks come creeping in

The most serious thing
So we need something quick and dirty yeah!


Repeat Chorus